Listened to this (earbuds) on a night flight while staring out the window. Excellent! I felt like I was at the movies. I'm sure I made some noises and other passengers thought I was losing it, since they couldn't see my earbuds nor any device. Great Performance!

The good thing is it's only an hour and 19 min. You can't get a whole lot into a short book like this. Dean is a old man his wife has passed and the only thing he has to look forward to is dinner and his baseball. When Dean starts seeing people from his past in the crowd he has something else to look forward to now,did I mention their dead. All the people he knows have died along time ago.So check it out its only an hour..

As always, Stephen King (this time with Stewart O' Nan) can create a great character, and he does so once again here. The premise is the main character Dean Evers is seeing faces from his life in the crowd of a televised baseball game. Many of them are deceased and it doesn't seem possible. He is determined to get to the bottom of it. There is a nice surprise in here and its a fun quick listen with Craig Wassen giving a very strong performance. As is sometimes the case with a Stephen King book, the ending is a bit anti climactic, but overall I found it enjoyable.

I ran across Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan's "A Face in the Crowd" (2012) while I was looking for King's more recent release "Joyland" (2013).

King and O'Nan are true baseball fans (they collaborated on 2004's "Faithful", the story of the Red Sox 2004 season) and catch the nuances of baseball fandom perfectly. Not baseball itself, but the diehard park going fan who wears the annoying foam finger and drinks watery beer at the park - and the diehard tv watching fan that times dinner preparation to the start of a game, and drinks a six pack in front of the television.

What if one if those at-home viewers was a not-so-nice old retired man living in Florida, who watches a game on tv and sees a loathed person far from his past sitting behind home plate, looking like he hasn't aged in the 60+ years since the old man last saw him? What if the next game, the old man sees a hated business rival buried years ago - and the rival is wearing the same suit he was buried in?

I suppose there is an argument to made that "A Face in the Crowd" is a morality tale, but I'd hate to reduce it to the level of a lesson: "A Face in the Crowd" is, to me, the story of a well-deserved haunting.

The plot was a little too predictable, which is why my rating is a 3. The narration was serviceable and not too memorable.

At the time I wrote this review, the story was only available as an e-book or on Audible. I am glad I found it and listened.